BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I know that the pthreads API doesn't provide for adjusting the scheduler priorities of individual threads, but is there any mechanism for doing so under linux/unix?

For example, threads often show up in the process table (top/ps) as individual process-like entities, and it is possible to nice individual processes.

So, can nice be applied to individual threads of a process or would it affect all the threads? Or just be rejected for any thread other than the first?

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Re: Thread priorities under *nix.
by borisz (Canon) on Oct 18, 2005 at 07:28 UTC
    Yes, you can use nice, renice or pthread_setschedparam.
    Boris
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